Recording-machine



I. I. DIEHI..

RECORDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAILIQ. I9II.

Patented Dec. 2, 1919.

1.1. DIEHL.

RECORDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.19. |911.

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RECORDING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 2, 1919.

Application filed March 19, 1917. Serial No. 155,649.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, Jer-1N J. DIEHL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Boston, county of Suffolk, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Recording-Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to record making machines and particularly to one applicable for use by a perso-n having a periodical series 'of dealings with a number of clients or customers. An example of such a person is a banker, and the machine which I have chosen for illustration herein as exemplifying my invention is designed for use in administering` one of the so-called Christmas clubs wherein a number of customers of the bank make periodical deposits which are repaid at a stated time before Christmas. For convenience I shall describe my ini/'ention by reference particularly to such use, since to do so will permit of a concreteness which will render the invention more readily apprehended.

My invention will best be understood by reference to thefollowing description of the illustrated embodiment thereof shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein zrFigure 1 is a plan view of a machine embodying my invention with parts broken away;

Fig. 2 is a view of a portion of the front face or obverse of a'depositors receipt card or book adapted to be used with the machine of Fig. l; y i

Fig. 3 is a view of the reverse thereof:

Fig. 4: is a View showing a record slip made by the machine;

Fig-5 is a plan of the machine with the covers removed and parts broken away;

I Fig. 6 is a section on line @#6 of Fig. 5; and

Figs. 7, ,8 and Q are sections on the like numbered lines of Fig. 6.

To simplify the description of the mechanical construction of the machine shown, I will firstl describe the particular results obtained from its use. The machine is adapted to be used by the banker in connertion with depositors pass-books or cards 3, shown in Figs. 2 and 3. IVhen a payment is made by a depositor it is receipted 'for on his pass-book anda record is made for use by the banker corresponding to a journal entry irom which his ledger account may be posted. The present machine provides means whereby the receipted record and the journal entry record may be made with minimum labor and without possibility of mistake.

In the embodiment of the invention chosen for illustration, the card or deposit book 3 has on one side thereof (Fig. a tabulation of the dates when payments are due, blanks 5 being provided for marking or printing upon the card a record of the date on which the various payments were received. A portion of the card also has a.

surface formed in such manner as to permit i an identifying imprint of the card to be made therefrom. In the form here shown, the card has attached to one end thereof, conveniently on the side opposite the tabulation referred to, a plate 7 having raised characters thereon. In Fig. 3 the characters 100-1247 are shown on the card 3, 100 indicating that the holders weekly deposit is $1.00, 1247 being a designation of the particular the bank. The machine which I am about to describe not only stamps the receiving date in one of the blanks 5, but forms a record for vthe banker which may be like that shown in Fig. 4, consisting of a slip of paper, con-` veniently a length of paper strip or tape. In Fig. 4 the numeral 23 indicates that the payment receipted for was the twenty-third payment, in other words, that the twentythird blank space 5 was stamped with a receipting date. The legend 6-4-17, of course, is a record of the date on which the payment was made, being June 4, 1917, and the legend 10U-#124:77 is an identification of the particular account to which the payment is to be credited and the particular pass-book or card in which a receipting entry was made, y

Having thus described the results which are obtained by the use of my machine, I can more readily proceed with a description of the mechanical construction here Vshown for purposes of illustration. In eX- terior appearance the machine takes the account which he has with form of a suitable box or casing, as best to print upon the sur tate the positionin,f r oi" the depositors passbook 3, Which, asshown in Figs. 1 and 9, is inserted between al bottom pzlate 13 and a top plate 15, which top plate has anges 17 engaging two adjacent edges of the book to position the same. The plate 13 is out away as shown in Fig. 9 at 19, so that the blanks 5 sible from the interior of the box. The 'plates are also aperturcd as shown at the left in Fig. 1,v so that the printing plate 7 on'the pass-book cardl 3 projects out into 4the apertures beyond the main portions of the plates, as clearly seen in Fig. G. The records for the bankers use are herein shown as made upon a strip of paper tape 21, best shown in Fig. 6, led from a supply roll` 23 Within the box over the top plate 15 and over suitable guides as shown, if necessary, and through a pair of feed rolls Q5 and' thence through opening 27 to the exterior of the box. Herein the records are adapted to be made vupon the tape 21 by ribbon printing, an inking ribbon 29 extendingl from roll 31 over the top plate l5 in coperation with the tape 2l to a t'eeding roll `33. The tape 21 and ribbon 29 are shieldedlby the-plate 15 from the operation thereon ofvany vmechanism Within the box, except-.at the left Where the plate is apertua'ed as already described to expose the printing plate 7 of the card 3. A platen or impression surface 35 may beca-rried bythe cover of the opposlte this open- I will next ldescribe the mechanism by which records are concomfitantly made on the card 3 positioned as described, and upon the tape 21. The printing mechanism is carried by a suitable frame (Fig. G) comprising end pieces 37 and 39 connected by -a rod 41. The end pieces are mounted to slidewon vertical posts 43 l(Figs. G and 9), and the frame is normally held in the dcpressed position shown in those figures by means of springs 45, encircling the posts and held rby nuts 47 in position to bear against the end pieces 37 and 39. Mounted to vslide along the connecting rod 41 is a traveling block 49 which carries marking means adapted (see Fig. 9) to mark upon the card 3 through the opening 19 in the plate 13. In the present embodiment of ythe invention the marking means -51 carried by" the block 49 is afSelfl-inking dating stamp inviti'lf'of Well known form andhaving shiftable type adapted when pressure is 'put upon the stamp to be swung from engement with an inkin pad into position we against which the stamp is pressed. The position of the blockf49 along the connecting rod 41 determines in what one of the blanks 5 the Stamp will kmark. The block 49 may be longitudinally adjusted (see Figs. 5 and 9) of the positioned card are acces of the shaft 75 will, through the gear 71,

Wheel 65, and similarly rotation o't' the by ,means ot a handle extending to the exterior' ot the box and hinged to block 49, as shown in Fig. 9, so that it may swing rertically. Up and down movement of the block and frame will Atherefore not be impeded by the handle. On the handle 53 is an index 55 adapted (see Fig. 1) to c0- operate with aV scale 57. The fact that the card 3 is positioned in the machine by the Iixed flanges 17, renders it possible accurately to mark any desired one of the blanks 5.

Also carried by the frame, herein by the end piece 39, are suitable impression means coperating with the platen I have herein shown a presser device 59 so arranged as to press the portion of the card 3 bearing the type plate 7 against the inking ribbon, paper strip and cooperating platen. Adjacent this presser may be mounted the removable type G1 herein designed to record the date. It will be understood that the type 6l may be changed each day when the dating stamp 51 is adjusted.

An important feature of my invention is mea-ns which I have provided whereby a record is made of the particular payment for Which a reccipting entry is made on the depositors card. For this purpose l utilize, suitable shiftable type members carried by end Vpiece 39 and cooperating with platen 35. I have here shown these devices as consisting oi two type-carrying Wheels 63 and 65. Assuming that there are fifty weekly payments to be made, each of these wheels may carry twenty-tive numbers and a suitable blank, use of two Wheels permitting sufhcient numbers to be provided for without unduly increasing the size of the wheels. Means are provided whereby the movement of the block 49 and ot' the dating stamp carried thereby will be communicated to the type wheels 63 and (35 in such manner that they are set so as to print upon the paper strip Q1 a record of the particular position in which the stamp 51 was when the machine was operated or, in other Words` what blank 5 of the card in the machine was marked. One suitable mechanism is here shown for effecting this. I have illustrated the type wheel 63 as fast on a shaft 67 journaled in the end piece 39, and the wheel 65 as carried by a sleeve 69 loosely surroundA ing the shaft 67. Pinions 71 and 73 arc carried by sleeve and shaft respectively, and these piuions are geared respectively to pinions on longitudinal shafts 75 and 77 having journal bearings in the two end members 37 and 39. It is obvious that rotation turn the wheel. 63 without affecting the .shaft 77 will turn wheel (l5 independently of the wheel G3. i

l'he longitudinal movement of the block vthat as the block 49 (Fig. 5) is moved along the rod l1 and consequently along the two shafts, one of the nut-like portions .vill act to rotate its corresponding shaft, .vhile the other nut-like portion Will lbe idle, not be- 4ing in engagement With the spiral on its shaft. In order to insure that one shaft shall not move While the other is being operated, the shafts Where not spirally grooved may have straight grooves therein, as vseen in Fig. G. Thus when the4 interior projection of the nut rides ont of coperation with the spiral groove ony the shaft, it will enter the straight groove and the nut Will be locked to the shaft by a feather and groove connection and hold the shaft against rotation While the companion nut-like reember is freed from its locking engagement With the other shaft and may rotate the saine by action on the spiral groove. It will thus be seen that When, as seen in Fig. 1, the handle is adjusted with respeet'to the scale 57, the dating stamp 51 is shifted so as to niake the recording entry in the proper blank 5 (Fig. 2) of the card 3, and the type Wheels are also shifted so as to be in position to record the number of that blank on the paper tape, thus making the record shown in Fig. t, wherein the numeral 23 is stamped by the type Wheel in the position shown in Fig. 5, the date t3-4F17 is stai'nped by the removable type 61, and the identifying record 10G-4247 is made by the plate 7 (Fig. 6) which is pressed by presser 59 into coperation With paper 21, hiking ribbon 29 and platen 35.

To cause the tivo record surfaces to be marked by the types described, the entire fraine comprising end pieces 37 and 8* and connecting rod 441, together with the mechanisin carried thereb j may be reciprocated along the guide rot against the fori-'e of springs For this purpose rork shafts 8T and 89 are provided having lemrs 91 and 93 conveniently*provided with anti-friction rollers, as shown. which are adapted to engage 'beneath the connecting bar l1, The shaft 87 may be rocked by means of the hand crank exterior to the box (Fig. 9) and equivalent motion is communicated to shaft 89 by means of the parallel crank arn'is 97 and 99 connected by the link 101.

A.. suitable' spring 103 (Figs. 0 and 9\,. is

provided to hold the levers/91 and 93 normally in engagement with the rod 41. T he springs which depress the frame will normally bring the end of the crank 95 to the position'shown in Figs. 6 and 9. t will be understood that if the crank 95 is rocked to the right, viewing Fig. 0, thatpthe whole frame will slide on theposts #L35 t' it the dating stamp 51 will he pressed against` the rard 3 to make a niark thereon, that the type presented by the Wheels 63 and 65, and the type 61 will press the' paper strip 31 and its cooperating inking ribbon Q0 against the platen 35, and that the presser 59 will press the plate 7 carried by the card also against the platen to make a niark upon the r aper strip. It may be here noticed that in the embodiment of the invention shovvn the paper is placed in front of the inking ribbon as regards the type. This reversal of the customary practice of ribbon printing found .in typewriters and like instrlnnents, is due to a desire to have the type of the plate 7 in its `ordinary legible position, as shown in Fig. 3, and not reversed as ivonld be necessary if an unreversed mark were to be i'nade by the plate throngh a ribbon and on a paper beneath that ribbon.

In the present embodinient of my invention the reciprocation of the frame described also acts to feed forward the paper strip and the inking ribbon so as to bring fresh portions thereof in position for the next recording operation, and also provides for -ntting olf a length of the paper so that the records of the various reseipts recorded by the machine may be preserved in the forni of slips, as shown in Fig. si, fron'ir which bookkeepersI may post thebanks ledgers.

l sl .ll first describe the nieans by which the paper andthe ribbon are fed. Referring to Figs. 5, G and S, l have here shown sprocket `Wheel 10e. on the journal of one of the feed rolls connected by a sprocket chain 105 with a sprocket Wheel 10i loosely in unted on rock shaft S9. Secured to the hub of the sprocket 107 is a ratchet v-:heel 109. The crank arm 99 alreadyv referred to nl. y carry a paivl 111 adapted to roperate with this` ratchet. Referring to Fig. 0, it Will be seen that when the'frame is lifted to print, the arm 99 swinging to the left will dranY the parel 111 idly across the ratchet teeth. lflhen the frame descends the pawl will drive the ratchet and the sprocket 107 attached thereto, and through the sprocket chain 105 the feed roll rFlins the paper at rest While printing is being done and is fed forward between printi e' operations.

To feed the ribbon the jour al ofthe roll il?) on which it is wound is provided with a ratchet wheel 11??, and a pawl 113 is provided upon rod 115 f-vnspendml at one end by the link 17 from the journal o' xe roll and at its other end having a slot guided on a pin 119 in the frame of the box- (see Fig. 5),

The rod 115 is normally drawn to the right, viewing Fig. 6, by the spring 121 and has an extending arm 123 adapted to coperate with a notch 125 in the connecting rod 101 somewhat in the manner of a paWl with a ratchet rack. It will be understood from an inspection of Fig. 6 that when the connecting rod 101 is moving to the right, the rod 115 will be drawn to the right by spring 121 as far as the pin and slot connection 119 will permit. In such movement the pawl 113 is idle. When the connecting rod 101 returns to the left the notch will hold the arm 123 and the rod 115 will be driven to the position shown in Fig. 6, and in this movement the pawl 113 will engage the ratchet teeth carried by roll 33 and impart feeding movement to the ribbon. As in the case of the paper strip 21, the feeding movement of the ribbon is during the return movement of the frame after printing has been effected.

I shall next describe the mechanism here illustrated for severing the portions of the paper strip 21 which have been printed upon, and in doing so shall refer principally to Figs. 6 and 7. The paper strip adjacent the, opening 27 which leads to the exterior of thebox is guided over a support 127 which holds it in operative relation to a fixed shea r blade 129. The cooperating shear blade 131 extends beneath the opening 27 and is pivoted at 133 to the end of the box. A spring 135 surrounding the pivot pin and a spring 137 at the opposite end of the shear surrounding a pin which works in a` slot 139 therein hold t-he blade to its work so that .it will make a clean cut in coperation with the fixed blade 129. The movable blade 131 is normally separated from blade 129 being drawn down against stop 141 by a spring 143. To give cutting movement to the blade, a link 145 is pivoted thereto Which link has a shoulder Which is held in engagement with an extension 147 of the end piece 39 by means of a spring 149. It will be understood from an inspection of Fig. 6 that when the fra-me rises and while the paper stri is stationary, the movable blade 131 will lie actuated to sever the length of paper which projects through the opening 27. Since the travel of the frame is in the present instance greater than the desired movement of the shear blade, means are provided for throwing the link 145 out of engagement with the extension 147. In the present example a diagonally positioned member 15,1 is secured to the end of the box and is adapted to cooperate with a pin 153 on the link 145. When the link has lifted the blade 131 a suflicient distance to sever the paper, the pin 153 will ride along the diagonally disposed face of member 151, thus swinging the link 145 against the force of spring 149 and out of engagement with the extension 147. To

prevent the strip from curling over the face of blade 129 and to guide it for feeding through the opening 27, a yielding keeper 155 may be provided opposing the blade 131. Herein I have lshown the keeper as a slotted bar having a lower edge normally presented substantially flush with the lower edge of the blade 129. The bar is mounted on screws 157 passing through the vertical slots therein and may thus yield upwardly when the blade 131 rises, and when the latter is retracted it falls and presses the end of the strip beneath the edge of blade 1.29 and into line With opening 27 As the shears are operated upon each reciprocation of the )rinting frame andsince the paper is fe forward on each movement a sufficient distance to present a new printing surface to the type, it is obvious that the paper which has been printed on will be divided into separate strips each of which bears memoranda recording the receipt of a single depositors card 3 and this memoranda. will include an identification of the card made from the card itself. Guides 159 (Fig. 6) may be provided so that the length of paper between the platen and the shears will be equal to a whole number of slips such as shown in Fig. 4, and each slip severed will bear the record of a single operation of the printing devices.

I preferably provide a warning signal when either the paper 21 or ribbon 29 has been exhausted or broken. This signal is illustrated partly by diagram in Figs. 5 and 6. Referring to Fig. 6, the paper strip 21 passes between two metal cross rods 161 and 163 connected in circuit with a battery 165 and a buzzer 167. A wire bail 169 hasI its arms journaled on bar 163 and is normally supported free of the bar 161 by the interposed paper strip. If the paper strip gives out or breaks, the bail can swing under gravity into contact with bar 161 and the circuit to the buzzer will be closed and a warning signal given. A similar signal is provided for the inking ribbon 29 in the form of a bail 171 having its arms pivoted to bar 163 and supported out of contact with the shaft of roll 31 by the ribbon. It' the ribbon is withdrawn for any reason, the bail will fall into contact with the shaft, the circuit will be closed as before, and the alarm given.

In the appended claims I have referred lfor purposes of distinction to the paper strip as a primary record-receiving element and to the depositors card 3 as a secondary recordreceiving element. This phraseology is significant only for purposes of distinction.

I have described in considerable detail the embodiment of my invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and in doing so have used specific words to refer to the various mechanical elements. I have also spoken as if the machine were limited to a single use. While the mechanism illustrated is particularly designed and adapted for that use, of course the scope of my in- Vention is not limited thereto, norv are all the mechanical details of the present embodiment essential.

What I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A machine of the class described having means for holding a primary record receiving element, inking means, a platen, type and a presser opposing said platen, guides for positioning` a secondary record receive ing element and arranged to position a portion thereof between said presser and platen, and type for marking said secondary element, said latter type being movable to permit it to mark said secondary element in desired location, said former type being concomitantly adjustable to record such location on the prima 1y element. n

2, In a machine of the class described, a printing member movable to print in different locations, one or more printing members arranged to print in fixed location, said members having a plurality of types and being shiftable to present different types for printing and connecting mechanism whereby movement of said first member causes shift ing of said second member or members.

3. In a machine of the class described, means for positioning record receiving means, a frame mounted in opposition thereto for relative impressing movement, a member slidable in said frame, printing means carried thereby, one or more type wheels carried by said frame, and shafts connected to said wheels to rotate the same, said shafts being operatively related to said member to turn on sliding thereof.

4. In a machine of the class described,

means for positioning record receiving means, a frame mounted in opposition thereto for relative impressing movement, a member slidable in said frame, printing means carried thereby, one or more type Wheels carried by said frame, and screw shafts connected to said wheels to rotate the same,

said member embodying one or more nutlike portions cooperating with said screw shafts.

5. A machine of the class described, comprising means for holding and feeding a paper strip, impression means and a cooperating platen on opposite sides of the same, means for positioning an element of standard size, type movable for marking thereon in desired location, said positioning means being arranged to position a portion of said element between said platen and impression means, and mechanism for operating said impression means and said type.

6. A machine of the class described, comprising means for holding a primary record receiving element, a guide for a secondary record receiving element, printing means arranged to cooperate with said primary element, printing means arranged to coperate with said secondary element, said secondary element and the corresponding printing means being relatively movable to alter the position of the record on the element, said first-mentioned printing means including type shiftable by the adjusting movement of said parts for recording on the primary element an indication of such position, and means to operate said printing means.

72 A machine of the class described, comprising a boX or casing, means for holding a primary record receiving element, means for positioning a secondary record receiving ele* ment arranged to permit its insertion from the exterior of the box, type for marking said secondary element movable to mark thereon in different positions, shiftable type for marking said primary element, means including a single handle exterior to the box for moving said first-mentioned type and shifting said second-mentioned type in correlation, and means including a handle exterior to the box for printing from said types.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

JOHN J. DIEHL. 

